I don’t like to write, but I take great pleasure in having written — in having finally made an arrangement that has a certain inevitability, like

I do not like to write - I like to have written.

I prefer the absurdity of writing poems
to the absurdity of not writing poems.

I derive just as much happiness from the process as from the results.

The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot.

I find I cannot exist without Poetry

I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings.

If it ain't a pleasure, it ain't a poem.

She lives the poetry she cannot write.

I don’t like to write, but I take great pleasure in having written — in having finally made an arrangement that has a certain inevitability, like the solution to a mathematical problem. Perhaps in no other line of work is delayed gratification so delayed.

I am happy even before I have a reason.

As we brew, we must bake

Don't mind me. I'm as happy as a cricket here.

I'm very happy by myself — I'm lucky in that way — if I've got enough to read and something to write about and a bit of alcohol for me to add an edge, not to dull it.